This task was bothering me for a long time. We have educational license of Houdini in our school which works without any limitation within the school network. But often I want to reuse my asset created in school for other projects, however an attempt to do so transform my .hip file into apprentice version with all of the limitations applied.

Our post-production facility recessives DPX plates with .3dl LUT file from DaVinci Resolve. The LUTs were for two different cameras one of which is ARRI Alexa and another is RED. The task is to apply this LUTs to every dailies rendered by all artists.

Solution

First, we need to create a gizmo for each LUT which contain Vector Field Nuke node with the following expression in the “fectorfield file” field.

[getenv NUKE_LUT]/A_CAM_ArriLogC.3dl

where “getenv NUKE_LUT” will grab session environmental variable with name “NUKE_LUT” which contain path to the LUTs folder.

By using “localize” Tank command config can be imported into single self contain folder that can be copied anywhere.

But copy of this config have no use until it hooked up with SG project. What if we want to hooked it up with the project that already has a internal studio config. In this example I brought a copy of my config home.